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Mark Gurman and Brad Stone, Bloomberg News Published 10:11 p.m. ET April 23, 2018 Ten years ago, Amazon introduced the Kindle and established the appeal of reading on a digital device. Four years ago, Jeff Bezos and company rolled out the Echo, prompting millions of people to start talking to a computer. Now Amazon.com Inc. is working on another big bet: robots for the home. The retail and cloud computing giant has embarked on an ambitious, top-secret plan to build a domestic robot, according to people familiar with the plans. Codenamed “Vesta,” after the Roman goddess of the hearth, home and family, the project is overseen by Gregg Zehr, who runs Amazon’s Lab126 hardware research and development division based in Sunnyvale, California. Lab126 is responsible for Amazon devices such as the Echo speakers, Fire TV set-top-boxes, Fire tablets and the ill-fated Fire Phone. The Vesta project originated a few years ago, but this year Amazon began to aggressively ramp up … [Read more...] about Amazon is said to be working on home robots

By Mark Gurman Bloomberg Brad Stone Mon., April 23, 2018 Ten years ago, Amazon introduced the Kindle and established the appeal of reading on a digital device. Four years ago, Jeff Bezos and company rolled out the Echo, prompting millions of people to start talking to a computer. Now Amazon.com Inc. is working on another big bet: robots for the home. The retail and cloud computing giant has embarked on an ambitious, top-secret plan to build a domestic robot, according to people familiar with the plans. Code-named “Vesta,” after the Roman goddess of the hearth, home and family, the project is overseen by Gregg Zehr, who runs Amazon’s Lab126 hardware research and development division based in Sunnyvale, Calif. Lab126 is responsible for Amazon devices such as the Echo speakers, Fire TV set-top-boxes, Fire tablets and the ill-fated Fire Phone. Read more: Retailers race Amazon in high-tech push for automated shopping Article Continued Below … [Read more...] about Amazon said to be working on robots for the home

BusinessTechnologyWorldNationalMedia & CultureOpinionSportsLuxury Newsletter Signup Technology By Corazon Victorino 04/23/18 AT 10:00 AM Amazon has a top-secret project codenamed “Vesta” that is said to be focused on building robots for the home. The division responsible for the project is also the one who worked on the Echo speakers, Fire TV set-top-boxes, Fire tablets and even the short-lived Fire Phone. Bloomberg learned from people familiar with the cloud computing giant’s plans Monday that Amazon is secretly betting big on robotics. The company is said to have this project that is codenamed after the Roman goddess of the hearth, home and family and is overseen by Gregg Zehr. Zehr is the man running the e-commerce company’s Lab126 hardware research and development unit that’s based in Sunnyvale, California. It appears Amazon wants more people to join Zehr’s team as it is aggressively ramping up hiring. The Lab … [Read more...] about What Is Amazon’s Vesta Project? E-Commerce Giant Building Home Robots

If you're anything like us, you probably can't wait for the day you can go to the store and easily (and cheaply) buy a robot to clean your house, wait on you and do whatever you want.We know that day is a long way off, but technology is getting better all the time. In fact, some high-tech companies have already developed some pretty impressive robots that make us feel like the future is here already. These robots aren't super-intelligent androids or anything - but hey, baby steps. From Honda to Google, scientists at companies across the world are working diligently to make real-life robots an actual thing. Their machines can be large, heavy contraptions filled with sensors and wires galore, while other ones are tiny, agile devices with singular purposes such as surveillance. But they're all most certainly real.Pocket-lint has rounded up real-life robots you can check out right now, with the purpose of getting you excited for the robots of tomorrow. These existing robots give … [Read more...] about 46 real-life robots that will make you think the future is now